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Rania Antonopoulos, currently on a leave of absence from New York University, is projects coordinator of the Levy Institute’s program on Gender Equality and the Economy and visiting associate professor of economics at Bard College. Her areas of specialization are gender and economics, international competition, globalization, and long-run determinants of foreign exchange rates. Her recent publications include “Asset Ownership along Gender Lines: Evidence from Thailand,” forthcoming in Journal of Income Distribution (coauthored with Maria Floro); “A Classical Political Economy Approach to Exchange Rates Analysis,” Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 31, No. 3; “What is Wrong with Employment Statistics? The Case of Greece,” Oikonomikos Tahidromos; and “Empirical Testing of an Alternative Exchange Rate Model for 12 OECD Countries,” Levy Institute Working Paper No. 240 (coauthored with Anwar Shaikh). Since 2002, Antonopoulos has been a coprincipal investigator for “Knowledge Networking and Capacity Building on Gender, Macroeconomics, and International Economics,” a program funded by the Ford Foundation and the International Development Research Centre. Her recent work focuses on asset ownership and gender dimensions of economic vulnerability. Antonopoulos received a Ph.D. in economics from the New School University.